I'm guessing this is a New York thing, but what is a "Bodega"?

[currensy]

We just call it the "Cornasto"

 

[truballa101]

We call it the bodega or corner store.

I live in Jersey if that matters

 

[Nouss]

We just call it the "Cornasto"

Or just "sto"

If im going to cvs or 711 ill call em by name but the family owned joints is the sto

 

[sreggie101]

to those who think of only the sneaker store, are you guys trolling or do u really only think the word bodega is just that sneaker shop? cuz u kno...why else would it be selling random *** corner ****?

 

[putting in work]

I say deli or cornerstore.

Call the arab, lebanon, egypt workers or whereever they are from moose.

Don't know why it was a thing that just stuck I guess.

Rarely heard them referred to as bodega.

But growing up in NYC there was always different names for spots.

You had the regular deli that you frequent, in my case moose and them N's, you had the loosie spot (different prices garnered different names), you had the .50, .75, and $1 dutch spots, you had the chinese chicken with pork fried rice spot (again different level of satisfaction with the food garnered different names to differentiate each apart)... well all different names for different types of spots I guess.

 

[the antihype]

I call it bodega if it's owned by a Latino with Latin / South American employees.

Otherwise I just call it the convenience store.

Thanks for not calling them "Spanish".
I don't know how, primarily, east coast, Latino/Latino American/South American's let people get away with calling them "Spanish".
That's like calling someone from China, "oriental".
If you're not from Spain, you're not "Spanish".
/sidebar
/rant

 

[160jordansdeep]

its a crappy store with junk and out dated food

i miss the days when the bodega's sold drugs in the back

 

[suberzat1]

to those who think of only the sneaker store, are you guys trolling or do u really only think the word bodega is just that sneaker shop? cuz u kno...why else would it be selling random *** corner ****?

I know the meaning of a bodega and there a reason why Bodega in Boston look like a convenience store before you head into the actual boutique. Yes I was trolling.

 

[putting in work]

I call it bodega if it's owned by a Latino with Latin / South American employees.

Otherwise I just call it the convenience store.

Thanks for not calling them "Spanish".
I don't know how, primarily, east coast, Latino/Latino American/South American's let people get away with calling them "Spanish".
That's like calling someone from China, "oriental".
If you're not from Spain, you're not "Spanish".
/sidebar
/rant

Man in NYC all types get bunched together as one.

Spanish goes to any type of latino person doesn't matter where they are from or what type they are.

Chinese goes to any type of asian person it doesn't matter where you from Japan, Korea, Phillipines, California, Canal Street doesn't matter if you have facial feature that resemble those of an Asian person then you are labeled Chinese.

Indians same as above you resemble some sort of Indian descent then you're being labeled and Indian.

Blacks is the same thing doesn't matter if you was from Africa, Haiti or Dominican Republic... black is black... (what I did there make sure you seen it)

Only whites I've seen somewhat get differentiated... got ol regular white, russian white, itialian white and country trailer park white.

 

[SC kid]

Lol I live down south and my and many cornerstores sell

sex pills, belly rings and earrings, white ts, hukkas, pipes, digital scales
those little roses in glass pipes obviously used for smoking crack, brillo pads,
flicks, boiled peanuts, pickled eggs and pigfeet in dat red liquid, loosies 3 for 1, 50 cent juices(not vitamin water) along wit the regular drinks n snax

also on the weekend theres a guy who sells fake shoes and mix cds outside.
(Dude makes crazy $$$ too)

but I always assumed a bodega was just like a gas station just without the gas

 

[losalmighty]

I call it bodega if it's owned by a Latino with Latin / South American employees.

Otherwise I just call it the convenience store.

Thanks for not calling them "Spanish".
I don't know how, primarily, east coast, Latino/Latino American/South American's let people get away with calling them "Spanish".
That's like calling someone from China, "oriental".
If you're not from Spain, you're not "Spanish".
/sidebar
/rant

calling an asian person oriental =/= calling someone not from Spain, Spanish


back to the subject,

deli, cornerstore, or Harra-Harra (they are from Yemen and I am ignorant)

don't call them bodegas because none of the owners are hispanic, spanish, lation... they own full blown grocery stores now ( c-town, compare)

 

[sonoftony]

Coming from a family that owned bodegas, I call them bodegas. I'm dominican if it matters. That's only in NYC though. If in the NJ burbs or anywhere else, It's the corner store.

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

Coming from a family that owned bodegas, I call them bodegas. I'm dominican if it matters. That's only in NYC though. If in the NJ burbs or anywhere else, It's the corner store.

All of this. My dad owned a bodega. A group of us used to hang out front sitting on milk cartons.

 

[Thats My Word]

*cue 'bodega, bodega, bodega, if you're not eating utz, you're eating buttz' video.

 

[eracism]

From md. I always use bodega for the corner store the A Rabs owned, called the workers 'Habbibi'/ Habib. Then I say corner store for everywhere else, except the spots Asians owned, always called it 'the Chinese store' referring to all employees (regardless of race or gender) as 'the ********'

Ex.

Im bout to hit up Habbibi

Man, the ******** got me for 50 cent, ain't that bout a *****

Man, they ain't even got wraps at the corner store, Habib be taxing, but they got the right joints, The ******** bout to close.


Lol everyone always knew exactly which store I was talking bout.


I love my youth lol

And the PC Award goes to.......

 

[water]

Bodega, where I get all my clothes 

Other than the Bodega store, I call "Bodegas" minimarts corner stores 

 

[cronicmolemolereturns]

Camron taught me what a bodega and habibi was

 

[ill legal operation]

Coh'na sto...

 

[Ox.]

I call that a liquor.

 

[jaysfiend23]

I have a bodega right by my house and I'm good for that place a few times a week

 

[niketalker23]

Bodega means warehouse/storage room in spanish.

 

[niketalker23]

Yeah Spanish isn't the same as Latino or Hispanic..

I sense a "Spanish People Are From Spain Vol. 7" in the near future

 

[babyface34]

I didn't know what it meant until I watched "I Like It Like That" a long time ago.

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

Only Spanish ppl say that, everybody call it a cornerstone

Not in the city and the greater 5 boroughs. It's common Hispanic lexicon that's interchangeable with cornerstore.

Reason why I might not call it a deli cuz not all of them have a damn deli part to it

 

[Kaleo15]

We call them gas stations here.